[lug] Sound driver

[Elyse Grasso]

I'll check the network connections, but I'm not sure why they would 
affect the sound driver. 

In any case, the laptop has a fixed name and IP address (192.168.1.80) 
which is the same in both places, and specified in the hosts file. (It 
gets used as a testbed for server changes.)

DNS is different in the two places, but why would the sound driver care 
about DNS differences?

On Monday 10 February 2003 11:02 am, Zan Lynx wrote:
> The only difference I can see from your description is the network.
> 
> It might be a problem with your host name.  At work, I imagine that 
your
> laptop gets a particular name from the network name server.  If you
> originally configured your laptop at work, something in the sound 
system
> may be trying to use that name.
> 
> I believe KDE uses the arts sound server.  I don't have any experience
> with that.
> 
> Try putting your laptop's name from work into your /etc/hosts file as
> 127.0.0.1.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:25, Elyse Grasso wrote:
> > Here's a weird one.  
> > 
> > When I boot my laptop at work, the sound system always comes up. KDE 
> > plays its little tune when I log in, sounds on websites work, etc. 
> > 
> > When I boot it at home, the sound system never comes up. No tune, no 
> > sounds on websites. Soundcard detection acts like it works, but no 
> > sounds come out if I click the test button.
> > 
> > I make no changes to the setup: I just shutdown the laptop at work 
and 
> > plug it in at home and start it up. 
> > 
> > There are ethernet connections at both places. The modem card stays 
in 
> > the laptop at work and is found at boot time(so it doesn't get lost) 
and 
> > the failure at home happens regardless of whether the modem cable is 
> > plugged into the modem card.
> > 
> > How does the laptop know that it is at home instead of at work and 
why 
> > should that affect the sound drivers?
> > 
> > KRUD/RedHat 8.0
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Elyse Grasso